Moonlight Graham

US F-22's shot down the balloon that was traveling over the Yukon (Canadian airspace). This is so embarrassing. We can't even defend our own airspace against a balloon without America's help. IT'S A BALLOON! "I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. [NORAD] shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object," Trudeau said in a statement on Twitter.

More like self-destructive. But they don't even realize it. They think everyone is as tolerant as they are, but they aren't. And they are so nice and tolerant that they would sacrifice their own culture to accommodate other cultures. They are weak and submissive. They're so self-loathing they don't even think there's much worth defending. They will bend over backwards to help indigenous peoples protect their own culture, but protecting their own culture is oppressive, racist, and evil. One day they will turn around and little will be left. Post-national state. Chinese all move to Markham, and south asians all move to Brampton, and that's not racist. But whities move to Oakville and Barrie and its "white flight" and toxic racism. This is how they think. Riddled with guilt and self-loathing, double-standards for everyone.

In order for all racial groups to have more similar incomes you have to discriminate against the ones who do better than others. Same with the sexes. Equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. Any disparities in income or other socioeconomic outcomes and racism, sexism etc is assumed, without proper evidence. Bad, lazy social science. That doesn't mean racism and sexism don't occur. But you need to isolate the variables and prove a problem exists if you're going to start discriminating against people to fixed a claimed problem. And the goal should still be equality of opportunity, not equal outcomes.

If it will be used to track you they can suck it.

Racist discrimination against white people and sexist discrimination against men is legal in Canada, literally guaranteed in the Charter of Rights. Yay equality.

That's not why they do it. That's a ridiculous conspiracy theory. They're very tolerant naive idealists, that's all.

I have proposed nothing new. Guarantees against search and seizure is already in the Charter. Basic due process and human rights. Yes we can click no. Only because government made a law requiring that choice. If you want to share all your info with the world you should have that choice too. I click no.

The Liberals are elitist yuppies who think they know what's best for everyone. Populists appeal to the concerns of the common voter, for better or worse. I'd prefer Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton. Online harms bill. Treating us like children? Depends on the details, we'll see when it comes out.

Only if we let it happen. We have a charter right against government search and seizure. This keeps the government out of our closets and bedroom drawers. It should also keep them out of our bank accounts. This right came to pass because police under tyrannical kings and queens used to come into our homes and search whatever they wanted (no warrants back then). We have no rights against corporations. They made a law saying we have to consent to internet cookies. So there's that i guess.

Congrats on shooting down the Chinese balloon after it had completed its mission and providing little disincentive for repeating another balloon. We showed them.

Government has done a truly crap job at protecting our online privacy. Governments don't want us to have privacy, they want to track us as much as companies do. Corporations just want to sell us stuff. The Liberals wanted to get into the bank accounts of Canadians to track their spending habits without our consent. I've seen some Canadians even defend this. So many Canadians roll over and take it up the poop-chute like the submission biznatches they are.

I don't really understand what digital government ID would be used for online.

1. It could achieve justice. 2. Laws. 3. This is my vision. But the cruel and unusual punishment thing stops my fetish.

I want to know too. I feel great shame being a westerner and all the problems we've caused in this world. It would be nice to have a leader who expresses these things too. #ihatemyself.

1. If you caught a man fiddling with your child would you beat the life out of them or politely ask them to stop and call 911? Would you blame a man for murdering a pedophile who fiddled with their child? Does the pedophile deserve what they'd get? 2. Whoa let's not get crazy here. 3. This just isn't creative or entertaining enough. We could shove a large carrot up their bum and make them walk pantless down the street they live on.

Don't we deserve better...than Harper and Trudeau?

No, just my specific laws proposed, let's not go crazy. Maybe we can also cut off the dinky-doo's of pedophiles and rapists too, bring them to the taxidermist and hang them on a wall in city hall. We could give the perps breast implants too and use plastic surgery to turn the rest of their male genitals into cooters with lips and all, to humiliate them further. That would be fun.

What about Abu Ghraib?

They have a "heritage month" in Canada for most ethnic groups.

There should be a law that says you have a license to murder if someone breaks into your residence uninvited. Also, if you're a convicted pedophile the parents get 5 minutes alone with you to do anything they want, including murder.

I give 50% odds Snowden was paid by the Russians to spy. Quite a coincidence that "the US revoked my passport as I was in transit in a Russian airport so I couldn't travel anymore and why I had to stay there" as he claims. I smells a lie.

He's reporting top secret covert operations of his government during a proxy war against an enemy who means their country harm. I don't think reporting protected government secrets should be a free-for-all. They have a right to do it, but if I were an American journalist sitting on the story I would at least ask if I should blow this whistle. Sometimes there's a good reason things are kept secret, and sometimes there isn't. I'm not 100% sure where this story falls, but it has serious implications and journalists should realize the responsibility for potential harm their release of top secret government info may cause, as well as the good it can cause from revealing wrongdoing. I'm sure there's journalists who care more about their career and the awards & praise they'd get breaking these types of stories than the security of their country.

My Lai and Abu Ghraib meant serious human rights abuses. Nobody died blowing up the pipelines, but the fallout from the leak could result in people dying. Some of these leakers like Julian Assange release stuff that can risk lives and its irresponsible. What good will come from this story?

There's a lot of specific detail in his account here. But sure it could still be fake I guess. But somebody blew up those pipelines. If it were real I question why a journalist would report a story that would damage the interests of their country with no real good coming out of it.